This New Battery Technology Can Last For Days And Can Be Fully Charged In Seconds

Researchers and Scientists at the University of Central Florida have developed a new super-capacitor battery prototype which is being touted as one the most ultra-fast charging battery. The battery works like new after recharging it over 30,000 times and it is capable of lasting 20 times longer than the conventional lithium cell batteries.

UCF associate Nitin Choudhary says, "You could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds and you wouldn't need to charge it again for over a week."

Supercapacitors can store electricity statically on the surface of a material, which enables it to charge super quickly. These supercapacitor batteries do not use chemicals like conventional batteries, but it requires material sheets, which have as large surface area and can hold a large number of electrons. The twist is that these supercapacitors use two-dimensional materials and graphene seems to be the popular choice.

However, UCF researcher Ironwood Jung says that implementing graphene as a two-dimensional material can be a challenge and they chose to wrap 2D materials just a few atoms thick around the conductive nanowires. This lets electrons pass through much quicker and it yielded a fast charging material. "We developed a simple chemical synthesis approach so we can very nicely integrate the existing materials with the two-dimensional materials," Jung says.

The development of this supercapacitor are at an early stage and not yet ready to be implemented in products commercially. "For small electronic devices, our materials are surpassing the conventional ones worldwide in terms of energy density, power density and cyclic stability," Choudhary said. Here’s hoping this technology becomes reliant soon enough that we can drastically reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.